| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 496 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Getting there fair and square -- A distant coup -- Friday evening on freedom square -- Karabakh: the black garden -- Home sweet baku -- A reborn republic -- Xodjali -- Slithering in the swamp -- Of militias and mamed the mule -- A diversion through Islamic republic of Iran -- Riding the roller coaster -- Coup redux -- From ballots to bullets -- An army stumbles forward -- Alla Turca -- Of war- and oil -- Corruption in the ranks -- Rumblings of dissent -- The snow job -- Kelbajar -- The lull before the storm -- The crowbar- or Heydar comes home -- Meanwhile, back at the front ... -- Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan ... -- Scars on the soul |
| Summary |
This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's first years of independence from Moscow. Thomas Goltz became an accidental witness to Azerbaijan's inglorious history-in-the-making when he was detoured into Baku in mid-1991 - and decided to stay. This record of his years there alternates in style between tragedy and farce. Throughout, the intensity of immediate experience is balanced by an acute awareness of contemporaneous events in Karabakh and Naxjivan, Georgia and Armenia, Russia and Chechnya, Iran and Turkey, Washington and Houston |
| Notes |
Revised edition of: Requiem for a would-be republic. 1994 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Goltz, Thomas -- Travel -- Azerbaijan
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Goltz, Thomas fast |
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Goltz, Thomas. nta |
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Goltz, Thomas, ((1954- ...) -- Voyages. ram |
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15.75 history of Asia.
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Travel
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Erlebnisbericht
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| SUBJECT |
Azerbaijan -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002747
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Azerbaijan
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Aserbaidschan
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Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaïdjan -- Histoire -- 1991-.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Memoirs (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goltz, Thomas.
Requiem for a would-be republic
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| ISBN |
1315706237 |
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9781315706238 |
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